FOR FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN     AUGUST 28, 2008
 
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GOLDEN EMPLOYEE - Marvin Carlson, professor in the School of Natural Resources' Survey Division, will receive an award for 50 years...
 GOLDEN EMPLOYEE - Marvin Carlson, professor in the School of Natural Resources' Survey Division, will receive an award for 50 years of service at UNL. Photo by Troy Fedderson/University Communications.

Carlson plumbs 50 years of service to Nebraska
Marvin Carlson digs Nebraska.

Top News
UNL climbs in U.S. News Top 50 list
For the fifth-straight year, UNL has made U.S. News and World Report's annual evaluation of America's Best Colleges' Top 50 list of Public National Universities.

State of the University is Sept. 4
Chancellor Harvey Perlman will deliver the annual State of the University address at 11 a.m. Sept. 4 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Morrison dedication Aug. 29
The Ken Morrison Life Sciences Research Center - UNL's newest building and home to the Nebraska Virology Center - will be dedicated Aug. 29.

Other News
East Campus Artist
Paul Zanderholm isn't faculty or staff. And he long passed a need to be a student.

A Piece of University History
From the Archives – Mueller Planetarium
Visitors enjoy a "sky show" in Mueller Planetarium's air-conditioned theater in this picture, featured in the October 1958 edition of Museum Notes, a publication of the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Arts
Art-o-mat project issues first UNL scholarship
Mollie Magnuson, a junior art major from Grand Island, was selected as the first Art-o-Mat scholarship recipient for achievement in community arts.

Other Arts News
ANDRILL duo offers Aug. 31 movie talk
UNL geoscientists David Harwood and Richard Levy will present a movie talk following the 12:30 p.m., Aug. 31 screening of "Encounters at the End of the World" at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

Also @ the Ross
'The Animation Show Year Four' (not rated)

Korean patchwork exhibit opens 'Quilting Across the Globe' series
The traditional Korean quilting method of pojagi - which uses pieced and quilted wrapping cloths - is the focus of a new exhibit on display through Nov. 16 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.

Great Plains museum participates in national assessment program
The Great Plains Art Museum has been selected to participate in the Museum Assessment Program, a guided self-study designed to help galleries better serve the community.

Gallery receives 'Conservation Bookshelf'
The Great Plains Art Museum has received a set of conservation resources aimed at helping preserve museum collections.

Faculty Showcase Concert is Sept. 7
The School of Music will offer a Faculty Showcase Concert, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7 in Kimball Hall.

American Life in Poetry
We mammals are ferociously protective of our young, and we all know not to wander in between a sow bear and her cubs. Here Minnesota poet Gary Dop, without a moment's hesitation, throws himself into the water to save a frightened child.

 
 
For the Record

Giesecke named interim director of University Press
For the Record - Faculty, Staff and Students
Landscape Services earns NDEQ award
In Brief

GARDEN TALK
ITLE 5 focuses on ACE outcomes
Legal diversity conference Sept. 5
STATE FAIR EXCHANGE
Visiting scholar lecture Sept. 9
NURAMP workshops offered
Bowling league begins Sept. 8
Smucker delivers quilt lecture on Sept. 7
UNOPA meets Sept. 9
Lecture on natural play spaces is Sept. 11
Confucius Institute offers language, music classes
Credit union organizes school supply drive
NET seeks recipes, stories for show
Ross 'big screen' features Huskers